by Soo-Inn Tan | May 21, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Identity, Christian Living, Growth, Soo-Inn Tan
By the time they reach sixty most people have around six health problems. Then it’s just a matter of gently coasting around downhill to senility and death. (Christoper Fowler, Oranges and Lemons [London,UK: Penguin, 2020], 88.) A few nights ago I read the above from...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 25, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Christian Living, Growth, Life Issues, Loving Others, Suffering
I told her I was back in Penang to see my mum. Mum is 92, with dementia, and I don’t know how much more time I will have with her. She said she was back in Penang to see her brother. He had been in a coma for four months. Her brother was involved in a road traffic...
by Dev Menon | Jul 10, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Authors, Christian Living, Dependence on God, Dev Menon, God, Growth, Hope
The wilderness. That has been my primary perspective to understand the Christian life. We were redeemed from the slavery to sin, and we are on a life-long journey through various trials and tribulations till we enter the promised land — our Father’s house. The...
by Bernice Lee | Feb 22, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Christian Living, Governance, Growth, Loving Others, World Issues
Wiktionary: (idiomatic) A long-term strategy or endeavor. When you pass your half-century, the game doesn’t seem that long anymore. You’re closer to your death than you are your birth. But when even making the transition from this life to the next is merely that—a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 23, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Growth, Meaning & Purpose, Young Adult Ministry
I don’t do transitions well. In 1981 I left Malaysia/Singapore to commence my studies in Regent College, Vancouver. It was a dream come true. I would be studying with faculty I highly respected at a school whose unique philosophy I really believed in. And...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 26, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Christian Living, Following Jesus, Growth
Last Sunday, Bernice and I joined Evangel Baptist Church for their 40th anniversary lunch. There was an anniversary service earlier in the day but we missed that because we had a ministry commitment elsewhere. I was part of the original congregation that started the...
